Nehemiah 13:4–9

⁴Now before this, the priest Eliashib^ad had been put in charge of the storerooms of the house of our God.^ae He was a relative^C of Tobiah^{af 5}and had prepared a large room for him where they had previously stored the grain offerings, the frankincense, the articles, and the tenths of grain, new wine, and fresh oil^ag prescribed for the Levites, singers, and gatekeepers, along with the contributions for the priests.^ah

⁶While all this was happening, I was not in Jerusalem, because I had returned to King Artaxerxes^ai of Babylon^aj in the thirty-second year of his reign.^ak It was only later that I asked the king for a leave of absence^{al 7}so I could return to Jerusalem. Then I discovered the evil that Eliashib had done on behalf of Tobiah by providing him a room in the courts of God’s house. ⁸I was greatly displeased and threw all of Tobiah’s household possessions out of the room. ⁹I ordered that the rooms be purified,^am and I had the articles of the house of God restored there, along with the grain offering and frankincense.^an